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@Leo Gura Gotchya, I guess I just didn't want to feel that genetics is 100% of your success. Hearing that genetics is a very huge factor feels threatening, like I lack control. But I think I understand. It's just very important, but its not everything.

@Leo Gura Isn't that undermining all the ways to improve your health, energy and productivity? a strong purpose, hard circumstances that drive you, your social environment, your diet, yoga, smoothies, getting your emotional state right, i mean all these are important factors right? could you possibly be overstating the importance of genetics? partly the reason why I bring all this up is because I'm about to throw myself in an environment where I have 5 to 6 hours of a job (remote, full-time) daily, 2 hours of business, on top of all my other 10+ daily personal development habits. I currently don't have that level of discipline, but every week I'm becoming more and more productive and disciplined and reaching heights that I didn't think I could. Do you think it's possible for me to maintain such a schedule while staying happy, and joyful relatively? Even owen and you have done incredible things productivity wise (I recall you said you worked 70 hour work weeks, and did 900 approaches a month once.) I do think genetics matters, but idk maybe 25% or something?

@Leo Gura Lol I pretty much consume everything from you and not once do I recall you hinting at the actual action steps to do this 5x multiplier .. I guess that's what this course is. That's so mindblowing, yet hard to even believe that's possible or a thing, yet I still believe it sort of. One thing I can say for sure: I have consumed a godly amount of theory over the past 10 years, from everywhere, and less than .001% got actualized probably.

Some woo-woo, some ineffective, some too vague and abstract, mostly lacking in practical step-by-step execution. The only book I found to have solid techniques is pscyho-cybernetics, though that book is somewhat boring. But solid stuff in there.

@Leo Gura Wow I think I've been waiting for this for years! Really exciting stuff. In one of your videos, at the end you said you're working on a course that "puts all the self-help theory together" or "actualizes all the self-help theory", not exactly sure what you said, but I found that part so fascinating I started to think what could possibly do that, thought it was maybe abstract thinking. Actually now that I mention it, abstract thinking is different forms of visualization of the same thing, so I'm assuming that's a good part of this? If you're okay with sharing, what do you mean by "It will be a very powerful tool for you guys in your application of all the self-help theory"? And of course I sense I have some false notions of visualization, but my current thoughts are "action is 10x more important, so are habits", even I remember for example in your pickup series on youtube, you said 95%+ is just approaching, whereas your beliefs are like 4th important, or something? And how far does thinking really go? I'd imagine that changing things in your mind doesn't affect action much. I know I'm definitely wrong here, but it just feels like practically in day to day, you just take good effective flow-based action based on top teachings from different gurus. Of course, no need to answer this stuff. Regardless, I expect everything to be answered in the course. But man, your ability to cut past mainstream is just phenomenal. That's brave

@James123 Hey man, Ive been following this ever since you posted, and I just wanted to share. I truly hope your son's condition gets better. You're showing incredible strength right now, and so is your son. That's what it means to have human spirit. For some time maybe it'll help to think less existentially, and find more grounding. But of course, do what you feel is best. The storm passes. It always passes. I was in a very hard situation some years ago. The world felt like it was collapsing on me. But just take it one day at a time, and you'll get out. Leo's concept of requisite variety helped me at the time. Essentially, with any problem, you want to expand the possibility set for how you handle a given problem, big or small. This will mobilize you to take the best actions possible during this storm. Right now I think all that matters is being there for your son, present. Presence. Humans are very capable, and they push past obstacles, even your son will.

@Leo Gura I wonder then, and referring also back to your past statements, how is that you're the only person in the history of humanity to access the deepest levels of consciousness? or is it possible, and I think this is the case, that there are people in the history of humanity, even up to thousands of years back, who have also accessed very supernatural levels of consciousness. And just like you accessed alien consciousness, maybe they accessed some other facet of consciousness that you haven't, or even alien consciousness. Also, you refer to alien consciousness a lot, but what is that? is it just how an alien would perceive reality, simply put?

@Leo Gura oh wow, well thats new to hear, ill look into it

@Leo Gura how is ukraine corrupt? isnt ukraine just doing its thing and russias taking over for their own selfish reasons? The president also seems like a mini chuchill trying to get his uk back lol .. I dont know too much about politics but this whole time I thought they are pretty evolved?

Don't mind me, I'm just watching the show here, while I eat my 8-cheese layered, pizza with tomatoes, marinara sauce, and thinly sliced french fries. On a more meta note, this is slightly increasing my cravings, while I'm eating healthy these days, but its good training to resist the temptations.

@Leo Gura I really appreciate this episode. The moment you released it a week ago, I was like yeah this is not for me. And I usually never say that with your episodes. Then today I was like let me just watch the first 4 minutes and last 4 minutes, because you usually talk about the courses you plan to launch and the future of actualized.org, and slowly I got sucked into watching the majority of the video, until I started deeply contemplating this for myself. Upon going deep into contemplation, I can't believe how utterly wrong I was about some things. It's almost gotten to the point where I'm feeling disgust, shock, etc. in my behavior, particularly my desperate chase for money over these years and just seeing the extent to which that has caused so much negative effects, or getting so lost in theory and philosophy without really gaining massive experience of life. Game-changing episode.

I have a personal development community I'm growing, sort of like Leo's actualized community. I recently read The Game - Neil Strauss, and my mind was blown wide open. Now Owen's Tyler Durden Fight Club thing makes sense. I then started thinking about how all the pickup stuff shut down - mystery mostly, neil strauss gone, David DeAngelo gone, even people who don't admit that they were pretty good at game (Tim F., Tony Robbins, etc.) deny game to avoid a pickup community. But I can see the value in a pickup community, but combined with many other fields to form a holistic community. But it would be cool to target the pickup related people from a fight club angle. But I'm worried about attracting cult psychology (fight club) into the community that might toxify it, or incels or red pill or just rapey or disrespectful people towards women. I wanted to create sort of conscious pickup, as healthy as possible, but a sort of revival of The Game community that seems to be largely dead since RSD tanked. Are the dangers avoidable? What are some ways to prevent this danger? @Leo Gura you made it work without toxifying the community, and Im not nearly as conscious as you but Im able to spot and cut out BS posts and people from the community who toxify it. I dont want also a takedown of a holistic community just because there's a pickup angle that a group of people might want to destroy, like they did to RSD. Looking for some light to be shown on this. I'm excited to sort of revive game, based on the book The Game, but done in a conscious grown up way, but also Im worried about getting a bunch of toxic minded men in the community. Is it worth it? I also really wanna do this fight club imagery stuff (not in a cult way, but sort of an underground community way, but then again is that cultish? I don't know much about cults, but I know I've avoided cults of all kinds my life being open-minded with various perspectives.

Okay that's a big shock to me, he doesnt seem like that at all, he seems well put together, his interviews he says solid things, a solid career, that's a surprise, but I havent looked that deep into his life @Leo Gura why the heck would he need all that validation when the whole world gave love to him all his life, thats so odd

@Leo Gura any idea how a guy like tom cruise ended up in it? (which I think even ended up contributing to him losing his wife katie holmes)

Thats what I had a feeling that it could be too, but Im also not sure. Im debating between a) it's me not facing what I should be to progress on the spiritual journey, or b) it's just some trauma that needs to be released and nothing particularly about spirituality. The problem is this stuff can be so vague and intangible, these unique experiences, that its hard to make sense of it. I'm def glad im taking a break though, and I know I'll return to spirituality, so regardless it might just auto-correct itself.

I'll keep it really short. I've been meditating for about 10 years now. Over the past year though I've been very on off with meditation, because I decided to stop directly pursuing spirituality. Partly driven by bad psychedelic experiences, bad weed experiences, meditation going too deep I felt disoriented for months, having a weird episode of reality just twisting inside out sort of, but then all returning back to normal. I'm mostly normal now. Sometimes when I'm outside, like looking at the ocean, I get into this really deep spiritual type state. It's hard to describe. I'm still me though always. It does freak me out a bit, so I just have to move my body and not be still otherwise it goes too deep. Or for ex. if I meditate just 15 minutes, really deeply at night, when its completely silent, it goes so deep that it gets scary. What's odd though is that I remember a long period of 5+ years where I'd meditate and sure sometimes it went pretty deep, but just a deep peace or something. It was grounded. But now when I go deep, it feels like it goes deep in scary ways. It's hard to describe. I have some coping mechanisms. And I have some trauma associated with this, which is slowly going. But I'm making this post because just now the freakiest thing happened. I got back from enjoying my dad's birthday, laughing with family and eating and stuff, layed back against my bed, and had this insane emotional release, but it was so much that I couldn't control it, and it got uncomfortable at one point and stuff. Is any of this cause for concern? I'm mostly just letting phenomena arise and pass. How should I make sense of this? anyone experience anything related? Just looking for insight on this situation. I'm mostly not worried, because I feel I have recovered mostly. But I can still see that I'm much more sensitive now, spriritually, if that makes sense. Is there a way to make that sensitivity go? Because a lot of that seems to be going away, but a good amount seems that it will be there now because I've already done many years of spiritual work.

Oh damn, I can see how thats true .. I walk a good amount every day, but I don't do anything solid like go to the gym. I'll likely get back on that. I have done, and continue to do a ton of different meditations: Wim hof, do nothing, mindfulness meditation, hatha yoga, etc. I just now do whatever I feel like like though, whenever.

@Ramanujan I'm sorta in a similar boat. It's going back to what Leo said. It's likely you're not taking nearly enough action as you should be, just as I have not been. A month ago, I started reading this book called "relentless", by Tim Grover. He was the mental coach for Michael Jordan, and Kobe Bryant and many others. Those 2 athletes are considered some of the greatest athletes of all time, with unbelievable discipline, ambition and hard-work. So yeah I encourage you to listen to that audiobook every day and live by that. For some time maybe drop any other philosophy because it usually tends to counteract a truly ambitious philosophy. Commit to being an ambitious person.

@Leo Gura Then couldnt there be an argument for not creating a good life for oneself? to be more in touch with survival? If trying to get a nice house, live in a good country, be peaceful, get relationship needs met, etc. or does any of this personal dev work even matter really? if its all just bullshit in the face of a crocodile? I get that life is beyond that truth-wise, but ultimately life seems pointless. Or is this crocodile thing just a perspective, which I know it is, but it feels like this has limitations.

Yeah tbh I only read the AI paper for how to use AI masterfully, not for the politics, as I think many people on the forum. Although of course politics is important too. But regardless .. people are mostly going to be glad that you're back with another video. There's always a lot to learn with each video you put out, regardless of the content topic.

@Leo Gura damn .. well a surprise is better

I'm calling it now: It's a political analysis related video: Leo's been commenting on that a lot lately, has a 60 page paper about that with AI, and the 2024 US elections are coming up. @Leo Gura am I right?

@Leo Gura fyi, I didnt need to relogin to the forum .. in case that helps

I decided it no longer makes sense to stay at home. Being in my late 20s, I know I have to get out in the world, build a social life, travel, etc. My mom has a business analyst position, gotten people with no experience that, and she wants to help me get one. I'm excited. It pays 120k+ per year starting salary. I can see a great path of making money from this over time. It will be remote, so instead of 8 hours + 2 hours commute and all that, it'll be like 5 hours a day of solid work, but with breaks like 6.5. I plan to continue this business Im working on, its something not just for money but Im very passionate about, but until I get settled in the job I want to just do 10 minutes a day, then ramp it up to 2 hours a day in job when I'm comfortable, 5 hours on Saturdays then. A part of me just really wants to stay comfortable and not grind so much, but I don't have much of a choice either. I would probably get used to it, like jumping in an ocean and learning how to swim. I know I can do this path, of job + business, being in a new city, starting a new social life and all that, but I'm partly nervous. Has anyone taken on this path? especially from years of doing business to this job + business path? Anything I should expect? any insights to know, traps to be aware of? I'm a bit concerned because I've never worked for a big company. My mom says I have business analyst experience, which I see that I do, but I can't help but feel like an impostor right now since I haven't officially done it (like I've done it, but not as an official job position), and then going from a life of not much socializing to a lot of daily socializing seems intimidating. I've done these things before, just in a long time I've been just by myself, kind of away from the world, just working on this business. Yeah I just was curious if anyone has done something similar, and has any insights?

@Leo Gura I dont know about the escalation of these wars, or other doomsday stuff, but I do think nuclear war is a very serious concern. If you watch this, she's pretty credible, a journalist focused on documenting the truth, spoken to a lot of credible people around the world and stuff .. after I listened to this, Im sure that nuclear was is like very serious she also has a nice voice